Jonah 4
Jonah’s Displeasure Rebuked
1But it greatly displeased Jonah and he became aangry. 2He bprayed to the Lord and said, “Please Lord, was not this ▼▼ Lit my word
what I said while I was still in my own country? Therefore ▼▼ Lit I was beforehand in fleeing
in order to forestall this I efled to Tarshish, for I knew that You are a fgracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, and one who relents concerning calamity. 3“Therefore now, O Lord, please gtake my ▼▼ Lit soul
life from me, for death is ibetter to me than life.” 4The Lord said, “Do you have good reason to be angry?” 5Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of ▼▼ Lit the city
it. There he made a shelter for himself and ksat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city. 6So the Lord God appointed a ▼▼ Probably a castor oil plant, and so in vv 7, 9 and 10
plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was ▼▼ Lit greatly
extremely happy about the ▼▼ Probably a castor oil plant, and so in vv 7, 9 and 10
plant. 7But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it owithered. 8When the sun came up God appointed a scorching peast wind, and the qsun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, r“Death is better to me than life.” 9Then God said to Jonah, “Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “I have good reason to be angry, even to death.” 10Then the Lord said, “You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which ▼▼ Lit was a son of a night
came up overnight and perished ▼▼ Lit a son of a night
overnight. 11“Should I not uhave compassion on Nineveh, the great city in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not vknow the difference between their right and left hand, as well as many wanimals?”
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